Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): (T)
Goal: Understand that different perspectives yield different interpretations.
Role: Loyalist or a Patriot
Audience: Fellow Revolutionary War citizens and reporters.
Situation: You must research multiple events from the revolutionary war with a perspective given to you in class, such as a loyalist, or a patriot. You will enter you research onto a wiki page that represents a online newspaper while making sure to include some form of multimedia.
Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Content, Content Accuracy, Cooperative Work, Graphics, Navigation, and Spelling and Grammar. Comprehension, Content, Preparedness, Stays on Topic, Role, and Respect for Others.
Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):
Other Evidence (OE)
• Comic Life - Depicts the different battles, class breaks into pairs and then combine them into one big book.
• Web Quest - Making an online newspaper in a certain perspective.
Student Self-Assessment and Reflection
Self-Assessment (SA)
•Blogs - thoughts on class discussions and answering other questions.
•KWL - At the start of the unit and at the end.
Assessment Task Blue Print
What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?(G)
Understanding
Goal (MLR)
• Analyze different interpretations to understand how they yield different stories.
• Maine Learning Result
Social Studies
E1 History
What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
Big Idea
Big Idea
• American Revolution
• Different Perspectives
Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?
Task Description:(T)
A single event can seem different to every person that views it. You are a reporter during the time of the Revolutionary War. You are going to create an online newspaper so that you will be able to inform fellow colonists about the current events happening around you. You will be writing the newspaper from you own personal perspective, being biased is okay. You will be a part of an editorial staff with like minded people who share the same perspective you do. You are going to research different events that are happening in the Revolutionary War. Do not forget what your own personal perspective is because you are writing for like minded people and you do not want to end up tarred and feathered. You will enter eye witness accounts into a wiki you built and designed to look like a newspaper. Each member of the editorial staff will cover at least two different important stories that are going on, but you MUST remember to include multimedia into the wiki, such as pictures, videos, and sound, so that your online newspaper comes alive to your readers. Remember that you are a part of an editorial staff. You are there to help each other. Make sure to support your fellow staff members by bouncing ideas off of each other, and editing each others pages. You also want to keep up with the opposing classroom newspapers. Each member of the newspaper will be keeping up with one of the other newspapers. You will send an editorial to the newspaper you are "spying on.". Though remember that you must convey your ideas in a respectful way to your fellow Revolutionary War journalists and yet you want to try to sway them into seeing and understanding your perspective.
What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?
Type II Product
Type of Presentation
• Create a Wiki that represents an online newspaper.
Participate in a showcase of your favorite article.
By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?
Product Criteria
Presentation Criteria
•Content 25%
•content Accuracy 25%
•Cooperative Work 20%
•Navigation 10%
•Graphics 10%
•Spelling and Grammar 10%
•Comprehension 25%
•Content 25%
•Preparedness 20%
•Stays on Topic 10%
•Role 10%
•Respect for Others 10%
Table of Contents
Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence.
Role: Loyalist or a Patriot
Audience: Fellow Revolutionary War citizens and reporters.
Situation: You must research multiple events from the revolutionary war with a perspective given to you in class, such as a loyalist, or a patriot. You will enter you research onto a wiki page that represents a online newspaper while making sure to include some form of multimedia.
Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Content, Content Accuracy, Cooperative Work, Graphics, Navigation, and Spelling and Grammar. Comprehension, Content, Preparedness, Stays on Topic, Role, and Respect for Others.
• Web Quest - Making an online newspaper in a certain perspective.
•KWL - At the start of the unit and at the end.
Assessment Task Blue Print
What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task? (G)
Social Studies
E1 History
What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?
What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?
By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?
•content Accuracy 25%
•Cooperative Work 20%
•Navigation 10%
•Graphics 10%
•Spelling and Grammar 10%
•Content 25%
•Preparedness 20%
•Stays on Topic 10%
•Role 10%
•Respect for Others 10%